Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema (Venue Partner)
40 Arts Circle Drive
Northwestern University
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Night of the Hunter
- When
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Friday Oct 30, 2009 (8pm)
- Where
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Directions: On the south end of Northwestern University's campus, just off Sheridan Road. Free parking at NU after 4 pm weekdays and all day weekends. Near the CTA Purple Line Davis and Foster stops and the Metra Davis stop.
- Price
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$4 with NU Wildcard and 65+; $6 general admission
- Links
In the words of director Charles Laughton, Night of the Hunteris “a nightmarish sort of Mother Goose tale.” Preacher Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum in a sensational performance) is a sleepy-eyed man of God and a serial killer. Briefly in prison for auto theft, he overhears his cellmate, who’s soon to be hanged, talk of hiding $10,000. Released, Powell travels to his cellmate’s hometown to comfort his widow with the word of God and the cold certainty of death. Filmed with a stark, nearly surreal aesthetic that owes much to German Expressionist cinema, Night of the Hunter, ignored by audiences and rejected by critics on its release, is now a profoundly influential classic.
Charles Laughton, 1955, U.S., 93 minutes, 35mm
